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Anti-Bush Protests and Greg Palast Speaking Events
Support the Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act - Write Your Representatives
Families of 14 Victims of 911 Sue the Bush Administration for $7 Billion
'Tin Soldiers and Bush is Coming': Bush Again Orders the Arrest of Silent Protesters,
This Time at Ohio State Graduation
Court-Martial Proceedings against Lt. Col. Steve Butler Are Dropped 24 Hours after
Democrats.com Publicized His Case
Judge Smacks Bush for Rejecting First Amendment Rights of Former Government Official
South Carolina Gov. Declares Emergency to Block Plutonium Shipments
How Close Will Bush's Nu-ku-lar Waste Trains Come to Your House?
Cheney's Chief of Staff, 'Scooter' Libby Traded in Energy Stocks While Drafting the
Energy Plan
On the Very Day He Fought for a $250,000 Cap on Lawsuit Damages, Bob Barr Sued
Clinton, Carville and Flynt for $30 Million
GAO Vandalism Investigation Was Nothing More than Another Bob Barr Witch Hunt
Virginia's First Republican House Speaker Resigns Over $100,000 Sexual Harassment
Payoff
IRS Scrubs Soft Money Donation Disclosures; Katherine Harris's Reports Mysteriously
Disappear
With Bush 100% Behind Sharon and Rumsfeld, Powell May Quit
Documentary of US 'War Crimes' Shocks Europe
Al Qaeda and Bush are 'Playing With our Heads'
Smoking Gun Feedback: Seismologists Weigh in about Missing Waves, Readers Ponder
Pentagon Crash
FBI's Anthrax Investigation Drags On, As Criticism Grows
Christie Whitman Pimps for Polluters Once Again, Promoting Dirty Coal-Burning Power
Plants
Drug Companies are Gaming the Drug Patent System
__Anti-Bush Protests and Greg Palast Speaking Events
On 6/17, protest Bush in Atlanta, GA. On 6/21, protest Bush in Orlando, FL. On 6/23,
protest Cheney in Portland, OR. On 6/24, protest Bush in New Jersey. On 6/27, protest
Cheney in Charlotte, NC. See Greg Palast on his West Coast book tour promoting the
"Best Democracy Money Can Buy." He will be speaking in Oakland on Saturday 6/15, and
in SF on Sunday 6/16. Monday 6/17 he will speak at Sonoma State University; Tuesday
6/18 in Portland; Wednesday 6/19 in Eugene; Thursday 6/20 in Vancouver, BC; Friday
6/21 in Bellingham, WA and Bellevue, WA, and Saturday 6/22 in Seattle. For details,
visit the link at the below Citizens for Legitimate Government page.
http://legitgov.org/action.html
__Support the Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act - Write Your Representatives
"In recent years, corporate execs have been rushing to relocate their companies in the
Caribbean, most often in Bermuda where there is no income tax. This practice deprives
the Treasury of an estimated $70 billion a year - money desperately needed to fund
critical programs in education and healthcare. To close tax loopholes exploited by
corporate executives, Representative Richard Neal (D-MA) has proposed legislation that
bans the unpatriotic practice of relocation for tax purposes. Indeed, what could be
more unpatriotic than U.S. companies declaring themselves foreign to avoid paying
taxes? Adding insult to injury, many of these formerly American companies enjoy
lucrative government contracts... The aptly named, Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act,
would make it illegal for companies to relocate to avoid paying taxes, effective
September 11, 2001. Please support this important legislation and crack down on
corporate tax avoidance." Write your Representatives, courtesy of Working Assets.
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=13416
__Families of 14 Victims of 911 Sue the Bush Administration for $7 Billion
Stanley Hilton is a lawyer who worked for Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) in 1980, and then
exposed Dole's corruption in his 1995 biography, "Senator for Sale". Hilton "filed a
$7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3 against President [sic] Bush and
other government officials for 'allowing' the terrorist attacks to occur. Among
Hilton's allegations: Bush conspired to create the Sept. 11 attacks for his own
political gain and has been using Osama bin Laden as a scapegoat. 'I hope it will
expose the fact that there are numbers of people in the government, including Bush and
his top assistants, who wanted this to happen,' Hilton said. His class-action suit
named 10 defendants, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Transportation Secretary
Norman Mineta. Hilton said he represents the families of 14 victims and that 400
plaintiffs are involved nationwide." So reports the SF Examiner.
http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.lawyer.0611w
__'Tin Soldiers and Bush is Coming': Bush Again Orders the Arrest of Silent
Protesters, This Time at Ohio State Graduation
AP reports: "Immediately before class members filed into the giant football stadium,
an announcer instructed the crowd that all the university's speakers deserve to be
treated with respect and that anyone demonstrating or heckling would be subject to
expulsion and arrest. The announcer urged that Bush be greeted with a 'thunderous'
ovation." Now here's a report from DemocraticUnderground: Before Bush "even got to the
stage, we did our about-face... I saw one of Columbus' Finest heading our way... We
were being led out of Ohio Stadium... I asked him if I was under arrest, and he did
not answer me. When we reached the exit, I asked the SS man why we had been ejected,
and he told me we were being charged with disturbing the peace. If we chose to leave,
the charges would be dropped immediately... On this day, June 14th, 2002, I came to
the realization that we no longer live in a free society. This is rapidly heading in
the same way Nazi Germany headed." Tin Soldiers and Bush is coming.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=27823&forum=DCForumID35
__Court-Martial Proceedings against Lt. Col. Steve Butler Are Dropped 24 Hours after
Democrats.com Publicized His Case
Sometimes the good guys do win - which is a nice thing to know in these darkening
times. Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler faced firing from his job as an instructor and
court martial by Bush Reich elements in the military for speaking out about Bush's
possibly sinister role in 9/11. When she heard about the case, Cheryl Seal wrote a
story exposing the facts behind Article 88 and past slander cases against Clinton by
officers that were all but ignored. Within 24 hours of the story's appearance at
Democrats.com, it was announced that the "investigation" of Butler was over and he
would not face a court martial after all. We admire Lt. Col. Butler's courage and are
proud to have helped.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-bush-critic.html
__Judge Smacks Bush for Rejecting First Amendment Rights of Former Government Official
"A federal judge has slapped down yet another Bush administration attempt to assert
broad, unchecked powers of secrecy. [Danny Stillman's] proposed book is not about his
28 years at Los Alamos but about his trips to China in a private capacity to visit a
nuclear lab and test site... What's at issue here is not what Stillman wrote, but his
right to go to court. The Bush administration insists he has none. Astonishingly, the
administration insists that the federal courts have no standing to review its
decisions about classifying information. And if those decisions violate someone's
constitutional rights, that's just too bad. The Bush administration is no friend of
open government, but, even so, this sweeping assertion is, as U.S. District Judge
Emmet Sullivan said, 'stunning.' He ruled - and hurray for him - that, 'This court
will not allow the government to cloak its violations of plaintiff's First Amendment
rights in a blanket of national security.'" So writes the Rocky Mountain News.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_1206925,00.html
__South Carolina Gov. Declares Emergency to Block Plutonium Shipments
CNN reports, "SC Gov. Jim Hodges declared an emergency Friday and ordered police to
block federal plutonium shipments from entering the state. The federal Energy
Department is scheduled to ship the plutonium from the Rocky Flats weapons plant in
Colorado -- which is being closed -- to South Carolina's Savannah River nuclear
weapons complex, where it would be used as fuel for a nuclear power plant... Hodges
said, 'I order that the transportation of plutonium on South Carolina roads and
highways be prohibited.'... The shipments legally could begin as early as this
weekend, but U.S. Attorney Strom Thurmond Jr. (!) said Energy Department officials
told him they would not start until after June 22." The Bushies believe in states'
rights - except when it interferes with corporate profits. They are also obsessed with
re-fighting the Civil War - and it looks like they might just get what they are
wishing for...
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/15/sc.plutonium/index.html
__How Close Will Bush's Nu-ku-lar Waste Trains Come to Your House?
If it's indeed true that, as the Bush administration claims, Al Qaeda and other
terrorist organizations are planning to create "dirty bombs", shouldn't Bush
reconsider that stupid idea to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain? Aside from the
fact that Yucca is an unsuitable storage site, it should give us all pause to consider
what great targets trains loaded with nuclear waste will make. The Environmental
Working Group has put the idiocy of this plan into perspective with a website that
lets you enter your address and create a map to find out just HOW close to your house
Bush proposes to have these radioactive trains come. Check it out - and speak out!
http://mapscience.org
__Cheney's Chief of Staff, 'Scooter' Libby Traded in Energy Stocks While Drafting the
Energy Plan
Holly Rosenkrantz from Bloomberg.com writes, "Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of
staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, sold between $50,000 and $225,000 worth of energy
company shares last year as the Bush administration drafted a plan to expand U.S.
energy production, White House records show. Libby sold the shares in Enron Corp.,
Exelon Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Calpine Corp. between
February and July, 2001, the records showed." We demand an investigation!
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=uspolitics_news.ht&s=APQqGkRSvQ2hlbmV5
__On the Very Day He Fought for a $250,000 Cap on Lawsuit Damages, Bob Barr Sued
Clinton, Carville and Flynt for $30 Million
Salon's Anthony York writes, "When the news finally broke -- because porn magnate
Larry Flynt sent out his own press release -- that Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., had filed a
lawsuit in March against Bill Clinton, pundit James Carville and Flynt for $30
million, claiming 'loss of reputation and emotional distress,' the timing couldn't
have been much more awkward for Barr. That very day, he was championing a bill that
would cap damage awards for 'pain and suffering' at $250,000... So how can someone who
wants to limit awards for pain and suffering sue the former president and others for a
whopping $30 million in emotional distress? ... Behold: Bob Barr's vast left-wing
conspiracy -- Barr's case is yet another bizarre coda to the impeachment saga."
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/06/14/barr/index.html
__GAO Vandalism Investigation Was Nothing More than Another Bob Barr Witch Hunt
Here we go again... the rabid right-wing is yapping about the GAO investigation (which
cost way more than the alleged vandalism) of damage to the White House during the
Clinton-Bush transition. The report indicated that the damage was fairly typical of
that left by an outgoing administration, and we never saw Clinton getting up in arms
about Poppy Bush's outgoing pranks, which are well documented in the report. The
report also states vaguely that "it was unclear whether, in all cases, the reported
incidents occurred, when they occurred, how many occurred, and who was responsible for
them." Bob Barr ought to get therapy for his pathological Clinton obsession instead of
running up the taxpayers' bill for such ridiculous dead-end witch hunts!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34764-2002Jun11.html
__Virginia's First Republican House Speaker Resigns Over $100,000 Sexual Harassment
Payoff
Virginia "House Speaker S. Vance Wilkins relinquished his post as the state's most
powerful legislator because of sexual harassment allegations... Wilkins, the state's
first Republican speaker, has admitted he paid $100,000 to a woman who accused him of
groping her last summer... Wilkins said he paid the settlement to 26-year-old Jennifer
Thompson to keep the allegation out of court, and said the money came from his
personal funds. In his 24 years in the House, Wilkins built the GOP from an
insignificant minority in the 100-member House to a majority of 64. He said he would
decide in the next few weeks whether he will also give up his House seat... Delegate
Robert Bloxom, a Republican, said Wilkins' actions have damaged the GOP. 'It can't
help but taint the perception that some people have, and that's going to take some
time to reconstruct,' Bloxom said."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20020614/ap_on_re_us/speaker_resigns_13
__IRS Scrubs Soft Money Donation Disclosures; Katherine Harris's Reports Mysteriously
Disappear
Public Citizen, which tracks the flow of "527" soft money flooding into congressional
campaigns, has found serious problems with the way the IRS is administering the
disclosure system and specifically pointed to Katherine Harris' mysteriously blank
records. "It's not clear if [soft money groups with missing records] failed to file or
whether the IRS lost their reports; the IRS can't say with certainty. In other cases,
reports on the IRS Web site appear and then mysteriously disappear without
explanation. For instance, as of May 31, 2002, the most recent disclosure report for
"American Values in Democracy Project, Inc.," [what a sense of irony these people must
have] a group chaired by Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state, showed
nothing but four entirely blank pages." Is Bush's IRS scrubbing reports that would
expose Katherine Harris' corruption?
http://www.commondreams.org/news2002/0605-09.htm
__With Bush 100% Behind Sharon and Rumsfeld, Powell May Quit
The London Telegraph reports, "Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, is becoming so
frustrated at being undermined by the White House that he may stand down after the
mid-term elections, according to some American diplomats. The damaging speculation
sweeping Gen Powell's Foggy Bottom headquarters has been dismissed as unfounded by
senior State Department sources, but it caps a very bad week for President George W
Bush's cabinet. John Ashcroft, the attorney-general, was reprimanded for his
announcement of the arrest of an alleged 'dirty bomber'. Donald Rumsfeld, the
secretary of defence, was forced to make an embarrassing retreat over claims of
al-Qa'eda activity in Kashmir. But the biggest problem has been the simmering internal
dispute over Middle East policy, which burst into the open when Gen Powell
contradicted Mr Bush and Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, appeared dismissive
of the secretary of state."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/15/wpow15.xml
__Documentary of US 'War Crimes' Shocks Europe
The Independent of South Africa reports, "American soldiers have been involved in the
torture and murder of captured Taliban prisoners, and may have aided in the
'disappearance' of up to 3 000 men in the region of Mazar-i-Sharif, according to Jamie
Doran, an Irish documentary film-maker. Doran's latest film, Massacre At Mazar, was
shown on Wednesday in in the Reichstag, the German parliament building in Berlin, and
there were immediate calls for an international commission to be set up to investigate
charges made in the documentary. Andrew McEntee, a leading international human rights
lawyer, who has viewed the film footage and read full transcripts, believes there is
prima facie evidence of serious war crimes having been committed by American soldiers
in Afghanistan. McEntee, who was in Berlin for Wednesday's special screening, said war
crimes had been committed not just under international law but, also, 'under the laws
of the United States itself.'"
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1023894901416B265&set_id=1
__Al Qaeda and Bush are 'Playing With our Heads'
Maureen Dowd writes, "It's bad enough that the terrorists are using fear as a device.
Does the Bush administration have to do the same thing? The Islamic enemy strums on
our nerves to hurt our economy and get power. The American president strums on our
nerves to help his popularity and retain power. Both the bad guys and the good guys
are playing with our heads and ratcheting up the fear factor. If you'd only paid
cursory attention lately, you'd think the government had grabbed the offensive against
terrorists and that the C.I.A. and F.B.I. were now cuddle buddies. But the question is
being asked here: Is the Bush crowd hyping things?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/opinion/12DOWD.html
__Smoking Gun Feedback: Seismologists Weigh in about Missing Waves, Readers Ponder
Pentagon Crash
The Smoking Gun series has now been republished or linked to a growing list of online
publications around the world, from Russia to New Zealand. The reader response has
been overwhelming! The awful fear that Bush and Co. may have had something to do with
9/11 has been an unspoken thought, it turns out, in the back of a shocking number of
people's minds. The mail has been running about one (invariably unsigned) "you commie
traitor" note for every 20 letters of positive feedback and affirmation. As the author
of the series has said, "If people are presented with the truth, they usually
recognize it - it's just that they aren't being allowed to see it." Here is a
sampling of reader letters - the first of several batches. This one includes an
interesting interchange with professional seismologists on the "missing seismic waves"
from the Pentagon crash.
http://www.unknownnews.net/cdd060702.html
__FBI's Anthrax Investigation Drags On, As Criticism Grows
The FBI has had nearly 9 months to figure out which right-wing government or industry
scientist - among only a few dozen possibilities - killed 5 Americans with weaponized
Anthrax, and tried to kill two powerful Democratic Senators. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
of the Federation of American Scientists has privately named the prime suspect for the
FBI and the media - and publicly described him in detail - but the FBI's investigation
continues to drag on. Rosenberg will meet privately with staffers for Sens. Patrick
Leahy, D-Vt., and Tom Daschle, D-S.D, who were sent the most lethal letters by the
Anthrax terrorist, to increase the pressure on the FBI. Has Mueller truly fixed the
FBI, or is the FBI only capable of investigating Democrats?
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=7918
__Christie Whitman Pimps for Polluters Once Again, Promoting Dirty Coal-Burning Power
Plants
AP's John Heilprin writes, "In a victory for energy producers, the Environmental
Protection Agency on Thursday proposed relaxing air pollution rules to make it easier
for utilities to upgrade and expand their coal-burning power plants. EPA's
long-awaited announcement on the 'New Source Review' requirements of the Clean Air Act
touched one of the most contentious air pollution issues facing the Bush
administration. It would ease some of the most stringent measures that environmental
groups say are a key element in forcing dirty, older plants to cut emissions by up to
95%." By the way, the Secret Cheney Energy Task force recommended these new
regulations. It's time for Christie Whitman to resign!
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020613/D7K4BC3G1.html
__Drug Companies are Gaming the Drug Patent System
The NY Times writes, "With high drug prices becoming an acrimonious part of the health
care debate, attention has justifiably focused on the devious tactics used by some
pharmaceutical companies to extend the patents of their best-selling drugs,
forestalling competition from cheaper generics. These underhanded tactics must be
stopped. The issue arises because some drug companies have resorted to clever legal
stratagems to extend the effective life of their patents beyond the 20 years
originally granted to allow them to recoup the huge costs of developing a drug and
make a reasonable profit. Some of these maneuvers take advantage of existing loopholes
in the law; others appear downright fraudulent." No surprise here - that's what
happens when Republicans are in charge. Defeat ALL Republicans!
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/opinion/10MON1.html
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